WEBVTT - Ten Toes Down for Democracy 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:14.640 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:19.000 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:23.439 it is official. Joe Biden has announced his re election 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:29.319 for president for the twenty twenty four presidential cycle. And yes, 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:33.839 for some it and for some anyone, it feels like 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:37.839 deja vous if the matchup is exactly the same as 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:41.960 twenty twenty with Biden versus Trump. And I gotta tell you, 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:46.159 I did a video on TikTok that I also posted 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:50.720 on my Instagram saying that we need to be going 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:54.560 ten toes down for democracy at this point, right, And 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.520 what do I mean by that? I don't give a 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:01.240 fuck about the if and or about who else should 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.400 be running about. Oh but Biden's age all of these things, 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.040 because I got to tell you, and I've said this before, 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:11.080 I've said it this week already, that I have never, 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:15.720 in my entire adult life, in my professional career in 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:21.200 politics and in policy, been more concerned, felt more of 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:26.399 an existential threat two our democracy ever in my whole 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:31.120 fucking life than I do right now. And that's adding 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:36.720 on the twenty twenty election cycle. Because what I realize 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.320 and what I think all of us have realized over 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:43.360 the last couple of years is that the Republican extremism 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:49.280 has gotten way fucking worse. They have become emboldened since 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:54.520 the insurrection, they have become emboldened since Donald Trump's exit 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:58.760 from the White House. They have gone and taken extremism 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.680 to lengths that we never thought that we would see, 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:05.000 not in a quote unquote democracy, Not when you are 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:09.519 banning books, not when you are attacking private companies and corporations, 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:14.000 not when you are literally pulling microphones away from elected 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.640 officials and telling them and their constituents that they don't 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.600 have a right to speak, even though they were duly 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:24.560 elected to office, because you don't want the debate, whether 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.480 it be on guns, whether it be on gender affirming care. 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.119 We've seen it in Tennessee and now we've just seen 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:36.000 it recently in Montana. Right Republicans are being relentless. They 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:43.040 are defunding libraries because they don't want the books that 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:48.000 offer critical thinking, that offer perspective on history, on life, 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.160 on society that isn't through the lens of white supremacy. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.799 And so when you start to see right that it 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.400 isn't just a speckling. Right. It isn't just a sprinkling 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.560 of these things that are happening in deep, deep red states. No, 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:10.320 It's happening everywhere. So we do not have the time. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:16.800 I cannot fucking stress this enough. If you ask me, oh, Danielle, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.400 wouldn't you like somebody younger and this and that and 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.800 more progressive than blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Sure, 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.560 if we didn't have a loaded fucking gun pointed to 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:29.120 the head of our democracy, then yeah, maybe I would 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.680 love to pontificate. I'd love to have a larger primary field. 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.400 I'd love to have a primary right where we all 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.600 get together and pick the best person. But when we 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:46.480 are being held hostage by white supremacist terrorists with a 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:50.560 loaded gun at the face of our democracy, now is 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.800 not the time to say maybe not the guy who 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.640 got into the job and is doing a hell of 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.720 a job better than any of us had ever anticipated 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:05.800 him doing. So. When folks want to tell me about 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.680 why they don't want Joe Biden and why they don't 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:10.560 want this, that and the other thing, I want to 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.320 lift up a couple of things that are known to 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:18.280 be true. Here's just a little bit of the wins 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.760 that Joe Biden has had Since the beginning of his 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.200 first term. There have been over twelve million new jobs 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:30.159 that have been added right since he's taken office. This 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:35.280 is well above any other president, well above by at 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:39.720 least five or six million above what other presidents have 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.839 been able to do. The unemployment rate is near historic lows. 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.400 He signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, capped the 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:51.000 cost of insulin for seniors at thirty five dollars, created 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.920 infrastructure investments, signed the Chips and Science Act into law, 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:59.400 bringing back manufacturing jobs. First, major gun safety, which is 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.880 the only state point that I have because it doesn't 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:06.000 go far enough and doesn't really have tea largest investment 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:10.080 to come back. Climate change re entered the United States 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:14.200 back into the Paris Climate Accord that Donald Trump pulled 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:20.800 us out of. Confirmation of Justice Kintaji Brown Jackson, support 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:25.159 of Ukraine record enrollment in the Affordable Care Act, and 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.960 enshrined marriage equality protections into law, as well as interracial 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.920 marriage because we live at a time when that is 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:36.680 on the chopping block as well. So folks, that is 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:41.960 just a couple of the things that Joe Biden has 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:49.080 been able to do without without a super majority in Congress. 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.840 And so when folks want to talk to me about 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.520 his age, yes he is fucking old. He's old as fuck. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.640 But the reality is we got a run with what 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:05.200 we have right now. And look, I would love to 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.599 tell you, yeah, well, if we lose this one, we'll 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:11.320 get them next time. There is no fucking next time. 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.200 That's the thing that I want people to understand. This 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.279 is the same thing that I've been saying since twenty twenty. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.600 There is no next time. What Republicans are signaling at 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.640 the state and local level and those that are at 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.680 the federal level, is that they do not give a 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.400 fuck about law and order. They don't give a fuck 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.520 about the Constitution, they don't give a fuck about democracy. 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.600 They don't want elected officials to be able to speak. 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:45.000 They're not interested in debate, They're not interested in offering 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.280 up policies to make America great. What they're interested in 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:54.839 are the policies of cruelty, are the policies of harm. 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:59.440 Are what Donald Trump said in Waco, Texas, that He's 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.599 going to be their retribution against all people that have 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:07.680 done wrong against them. What queer people for just existing 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.160 black people for just living inside of their skin, women 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.800 for having wombs and deciding that they don't want to procreate. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:24.320 What is this wrongdoing that they are going after? So 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.840 if you think that we get another bite at the apple, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:34.200 I'm telling you no. And if Donald Trump isn't in 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:42.520 prison right by twenty twenty five and he loseth, Donald 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:46.480 Trump gonna run again and again and again and again. 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.760 The threat to our democracy is going to remain so 0:07:54.040 --> 0:08:01.160 long as Republicans hold a gabble anywhere. And so it 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.880 is going to be up to us to put aside 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:10.160 our ego and our wants and operate in the reality 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.840 of what is. And look, I know that for some 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.400 it is a very difficult and hard pill to swallow, 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:20.760 and I say drink some motherfucking water and get it down, 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:26.320 because if we are not going ten toes fucking down 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:31.480 for Joe Biden, then we might as well kiss our democracy, 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:37.520 our civil liberties goodbye. Like I said in my video, 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:42.280 if you want this country, all fifty states to look 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:47.439 like this state of Florida, keep playing games, keep going 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.440 up on social media and talking about Joe Biden's agent, 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.680 giving a list of people who you think should run 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:57.240 in his place, keep it up. It is that fucking serious. 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:01.560 If I thought that there was room for us to 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:05.240 have other conversations other than the existential one that we 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.880 are in, then I would be the first person to 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.240 be using my microphone on my platform to do so. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.160 But I am coming out right the fuck now and 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:18.760 saying now is not the fucking time. That is how 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:25.400 serious of a place that we find ourselves when our 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:31.560 allies around the world are making plans about America's demise 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:37.560 and what happens to them to the world democracy if 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:44.800 that should fall so we don't have time for debate, Folks, 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:49.680 That energy needs to be going into registering people to vote, 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.280 pushing back against your state and local officials, putting money 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:57.120 into campaigns across this country, and backing this president with 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:05.280 every fucking thing that you have, because our lives are 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:10.200 on the line. Coming up next, my conversation with our 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:16.560 good friend Kurt Bardella. Folks, you know that whenever I 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.840 have the opportunity to speak with our friend Kurt Bardella. 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:24.839 Democratic strategist, op ed writer, opinion columnists for USA Today, 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:31.520 The LA Times, Everywhere and anywhere contributor but unpaid at MSNBC, 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.800 is what I will make sure that people know Kurt Bardella. 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:41.400 It has been a couple of weeks in politics and 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:45.000 in America. You have been all over the place, as 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.400 you always are, but I want to start today. You know, 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.760 I know that in your other life you spend a 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.960 ton of time in Nashville, in Tennessee in the country 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:59.240 music scene, and Nashville and Tennessee as a whole has 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:07.360 become a focal point, a touchstone to illuminate past the shooting, 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:11.240 the best shooting that took place at an elementary school 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.560 there a couple of weeks ago. But the removal, the 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.440 attempted removal of the Tennessee Three, but the removal of 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:22.640 two Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, two black young Democratic leaders, 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:30.000 has placed a spotlight onto the conniving nature of this 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:34.360 very anti democratic Republican party. And I wanted to give 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.480 you an opportunity just from the many hats that you 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:41.199 have worn, how what we're seeing these past couple of 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.840 weeks has landed for you. 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:50.120 You know, it's interesting because people should know historically that 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:56.040 Tennessee is the birthplace of the plant. You know, this 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:00.360 is a place where you know, John Lewis sat at 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:05.120 at the Woolworth's counter and protests getting into good trouble. 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.680 You know, there is an intersection in the heart of 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.800 downtown Nashville of John Lewis Way and Martin Luther King 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:17.360 Junior Boulevard. Uh. You know, the fight for social justice 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:24.280 and civil rights. Uh, you know runs through Tennessee, and 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.959 here we are, all these years removed, decades removed from 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:33.960 some of those iconic moments, and the Republican Party just 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:40.679 proverbally took the white sheet off and exposed themselves to everybody. 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:46.880 You know, when you expel two black lawmakers but don't 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.680 expel the white one. 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.640 I mean, it's like, how obvious? How obvious? Right? What 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.239 was their excuse? Kurt? She didn't use a bullhorn? 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:01.439 Right? Yeah, of course, of course, you know, I think 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:07.719 that what has happened here, Yes, for any you know, 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.520 legitimate protests to succeed in the long run, there are 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:16.120 there are there are lynchpin moments where the opposition does 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:21.280 something so heinous, so out of bounds, out of touch 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:25.440 with the mainstream of the electorate. You know that that 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:30.640 it almost accelerates the cause and allows it to reach 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:37.240 and cut through the typical political barriers that exist in conversations, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.880 especially about guns and shootings. We've had so many of 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.800 them that it's a cycle that itself so often that 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:47.120 it's so easy for people that aren't directly tied to 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.120 an incident or community to kind of check out of it. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:54.960 But this took it to a new level. It extended 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:59.320 the conversation beyond the life cycle of mass shootings that 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:03.160 we usually have. And I think it, I think it's 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.000 gonna go down in history. Honestly, is one of the 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:10.640 most important moments to happen. Shortly thereafter the headline today 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:14.040 the front page of the Tennessee and is the Republican 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:19.240 governor bility talking about wanting more gunderful that doesn't happen 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.720 if the Tennessee three thing doesn't happen as well. And 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.120 so even though we may never see anything come of it, 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:32.800 the conversation is evolving beyond where it would have in 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.640 a place like Tennessee. Uh, you know, because of the 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.000 Tennessee three, because of the Republican overage, because of the 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.480 overt recial undertones involved, and and you know, and let's 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.880 be clear what they did here. They told the black 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.760 black guys, you've gone too far. We're gonna make an 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.160 example out of you go back to go back to 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:52.480 where you belong. That's what that all. 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:53.720 That's what that was about. 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:58.520 And it repelled a lot of people. You know, even 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:03.720 regardless of where you think about guns, this what beyond that. 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:08.640 It's a such flavorant abusive power, authoritarianism, and I think 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.720 it is one of the most we will look back 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.840 one day on this as a very important historical different. 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.600 I'm so glad that you laid out the history of 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.960 Tennessee for folks to really remember and understand what kind 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.200 of runs through the soil there. And I think that 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:31.280 what has also ignited hope in me and I tweeted this, 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.760 you know several days ago. Is that a part of 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.120 me different from you, Kurk who you know, you travel 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.040 around and you go to these you know, into these 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.480 red states, I don't, right, So for me to see 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:52.080 these young people flood into the streets, flood into the 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:57.120 state capitol to be charged up, fired up, you know 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.520 in a way that I was just like you would 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.280 have thought this was Washington, d C. At March for 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.800 our lives a couple of years ago. The energy day 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.920 after day after day that they've been bringing in so 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:14.600 for me on the outside, this was a shock to see, 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.600 a pleasant shock to see, right. And I forget what 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.960 Republican it was. You can remind me who said, oh, 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.160 this is what indoctrination looks like. Right, I forget who 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.480 it was who said that. Was it shocking for you 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:33.000 to see that level of energy coming in support of 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.840 the two justines, but really of the fact that these 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.080 young people are tired of dying. Yeah, they're tired of 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:44.120 being on the front lines of the Republicans war on America. 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.640 Well, I think yeah, I think it was Scott Walker 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:48.400 was the Republican. 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.000 Yes, Scott Walker, yep, yeah. 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:56.600 You know it was so heartening and asked for one 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.840 time that one of the things that gives me hope 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.720 about our future is that the next generation that keeps 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:05.560 coming up is more progressive than the one. You know 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.160 that that they that preceded. Uh. And I think Tennessee 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:10.600 here is a really good example of that. And there 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.320 are and people should know too. There's a ton of 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:17.720 college campuses and institutions in Tennessee. In the Nashville area. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.240 You have places like you know, Vanderbilt University, you have MTSU, 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.560 you have a lot of music business schools too. And 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.480 you know, because and you may not think this at first, 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:32.680 but country music is the heart and soul of the 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.719 Nashville community. You know, it is the largest industry, and 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:41.000 that attracts a ton of younger talent there who believe 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:44.639 in expression, who believe you know, creatives and arts. You 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.960 know that that tends to be a more liberal crap. 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.600 And you may think that the music itself appeals more 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.560 to the Red States, but the people who work there, 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.720 who work on music grow, who work for the music 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.919 labels and the pr agencies and the entertainment side of that, 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.880 they are all very progressive. And they all came up, 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.960 you know, going to the schools in Tennessee, and you know, 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.560 and I think the old guard got kind of, you know, 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.360 a dose of that reality that you know, this isn't 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:18.640 your grandpa's you know town anymore. Uh. You know, Nashville 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:23.040 itself is very blue Democrat mayor. Uh it was a 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.240 Democrats led count City council that rejected the idea of 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:29.720 even having the Reublication Committee, uh, you know, host the 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.080 RNC convention. They are they were looking at doing that 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.720 at one point, and the Democrats said, no, no, Dice, 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.760 you know, so it is. And and again what was 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.320 so amazing and you alluded to this a second igo, Daniel, 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:49.000 We weren't watching a protest in New York or Orange, California, 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.159 especially Coach, the liberal elites and all that nonsense. Was 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:56.000 this was this was Tennessee, a very you know, you know, 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.399 when you went to get outside the metropolitan areas of 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:03.520 of Nashville and of Memphis, very conservative area, and to 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:07.399 have that type of presence, you know that, you know, 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:09.919 I literally was just having this conversation with someone at 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:14.600 the Democratic National Committee earlier today about we need to 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:18.160 send more Democrats there. I think one of the greatest 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:19.919 things that happened in all of this, and I have 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.320 to get props to the Vice President, Comb Harris, for 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:28.640 immediately recognizing something was happening and that we needed at 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:32.720 a national level to have these guys backs. She went 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:37.440 there in lightning speed. People don't understand the logistics involved 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:40.560 in setting the president or vice president anywhere is a 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:44.160 mountain of logistics. Things don't generally happen. There's a reason 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.400 why trips are planned out weeks and months in advance. 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.440 For her to be able to turn that around. Basically 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:54.359 twenty four hours. This is remarkable and it showed a 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.400 real political intuition in my opinion, the vice president's part 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:04.000 of meeting that moment and helping drive national attention to it. 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.080 It showed the value of the vice president in the 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:07.760 way that I think we haven't seen in a while. 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.040 From yeah, yep, And it's a signal to national democrats. 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:16.920 Don't abandon Tennessee. Do not surrender ground to the other side. 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:19.280 So many Democrats I talked to Tennessee feel like they 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:21.800 just kind of get taken for granted, there aren't many 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:24.400 resources invested there. They're left to kind of effect for themselves. 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:28.080 And what ends up happening is Republicans get super majorities 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:30.159 in these places and due to crap that we just 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:32.880 saw them. Do we need to have a more concerted 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:35.480 effort in having a presence in these places. We may 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:37.919 not ever be the majority there, but we could have 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:42.000 a very We could put up a fight exactly. 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:44.720 I think that what it is indicative of is that 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:47.159 we can put up a fight. Right. I think that 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:51.240 too often democrats see have seeded. They not only do 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:55.720 they seed ground, seed actual states, but they seed language. Right, 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:59.760 They've given over patriotism and liberty and freedom right to 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:04.720 this anti democratic, hateful party right. But they have been 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:08.080 the ones that have been able to twist language and 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.520 to make us believe that places like Georgia couldn't turn blue, 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:15.479 couldn't turn purple. Right. And it's the people on the ground, 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:17.440 to your point, that are the ones that are doing 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:21.359 the works, often with no support and no funding, you know, 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:26.600 to get this done. I want to switch gears, you know, 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:29.480 because again this is America. In twenty twenty three, so 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:33.600 there was another mass shooting and you know that now 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:38.159 takes place in Kentucky at a bank. And what I 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:41.040 want to talk about with you, Kurt, is what I've 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.399 been seeing and what I posted on my own social 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:50.119 was a side by side New York Post front page article, 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:55.160 one that had the face of Trayvon Martin, the young 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:58.440 man that was murdered by George Zimmerman for doing nothing 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:00.679 other than being black with a hood on and walking 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:06.600 home sixteen years old, was gunned down. George Zimmerman was acquitted. 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:10.600 The headline of the New York Post in twenty fourteen 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:15.480 was Trayvon Martin had traces of marijuana in his system. 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:20.119 Fast forward now to twenty twenty three to the white 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:25.960 mass murderer in Kentucky, and the leading headline is about 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:31.280 where this motherfucker went to school? Right, what sport they played? 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:34.480 And so I want you to talk about how it 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:41.359 is still the white mainstream media's ability to humanize white 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:48.240 mass murderers, leaving behind the story of the victims, right, 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:52.760 the weapon of choice that is continually used in order 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:58.160 to uplift Oh, he's had a hard life. 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:01.240 Oh we see that. I mean, you know, this is 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:03.679 one of those things that drives me absolutely crazy. And 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:07.480 it just shows the the tent of racism that colors 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:16.359 almost every facet of American media culture. Because someone is, 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:20.160 you know, skin is white, they are given such a 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:24.119 benefit of the doubt and are able to escape a 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:27.800 certain type of scrutiny that anytime that someone of a 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:31.600 darker shade of skin does the same exact thing or 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:35.320 is in the similar position, that there is this rush 0:23:35.400 --> 0:23:40.320 to judgment and rush to stereotype robe And we see it, 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:43.439 whether it's with you know, the situation that you tweeted 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:45.400 about which I saw, you know, or even just look 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:48.600 at how Republicans right now are going after Manhattan. Da 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:52.080 alf of Bragg, who happens to be black. You know, 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:58.600 they don't do that if you know it's a Brack Kavanaugh, uh, 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:02.879 you know, or or one of their own. The you know, 0:24:02.960 --> 0:24:07.320 the the the threats that get thrown out at people 0:24:07.359 --> 0:24:10.960 of color who they ye disagree with, I guess will 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:14.199 politely say, uh, and people that also includes you and 0:24:14.320 --> 0:24:17.440 I who get those same type of time. You know, 0:24:17.560 --> 0:24:19.359 that's that's all kind of by design. I always say, 0:24:19.400 --> 0:24:21.320 it's not a glitch, it's a feature, like that's the 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:25.199 republic Party, that is their way. Uh. You know, being 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:28.720 a person of color in this country means that you 0:24:28.880 --> 0:24:32.399 have to play air free ball. And if you and 0:24:32.480 --> 0:24:34.760 if you have one second where you aren't the best 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:39.439 version of yourself, you're a jug dealer, you're uh you 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:42.800 know your your you're a threat, you're a criminal, you're 0:24:42.920 --> 0:24:47.960 under suspicion. Contrast that to how you know, the world 0:24:48.000 --> 0:24:50.760 kind of looks at white people and cellular circumstances, and 0:24:50.800 --> 0:24:55.080 they're sympathetic characters. They got a lot going on. They 0:24:55.119 --> 0:24:58.960 they've been having to overcome things. It's like every excuse 0:24:59.000 --> 0:25:03.119 possible to make it some how okay, to justify mass murder, 0:25:03.359 --> 0:25:06.520 racts of terror, you know, look no further than how 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:10.760 the Republican parity itself has recast the January sixth domestic 0:25:10.960 --> 0:25:15.400 errors as political prisoners who are being mistreated and who's 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:18.080 who's who's By the way, who's jails happen to be 0:25:18.280 --> 0:25:21.160 a ship ton better than any people of color in jail, 0:25:21.680 --> 0:25:24.200 Like we'll give me a break. You know, they got 0:25:24.200 --> 0:25:27.000 a choir singing songs for Donald Trump. Price say, when 0:25:27.000 --> 0:25:30.440 white people commit crimes, Republicans go visit them in jail 0:25:30.960 --> 0:25:33.240 and shot a spotlight on how unjust it is that 0:25:33.240 --> 0:25:35.879 they're being treated a certain way. But black people commit 0:25:35.960 --> 0:25:39.400 crimes or accused of committing a crime. You know, they 0:25:39.400 --> 0:25:40.800 had a comment they deserve. 0:25:41.359 --> 0:25:43.600 Would they take out full page ads like Donald Trump 0:25:43.640 --> 0:25:47.400 did to the exonerated five and call for their hanging? Yea? 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:51.399 You know, and again, within the criminal justice system, the 0:25:51.760 --> 0:25:54.920 parody that exists and the racism inherent bias that the 0:25:54.920 --> 0:25:57.879 exists people of color is no more appetent than the 0:25:57.920 --> 0:25:59.440 criminal justice system. 0:26:00.240 --> 0:26:02.439 Staying on the criminal justice system for a minute, I 0:26:02.440 --> 0:26:05.320 do want to touch upon the fact that Alvin Bragg 0:26:05.760 --> 0:26:10.520 and the Manhattan DA's office have filed a lawsuit against 0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:17.359 Jim Jordan Jim Jordan has tried to weaponize his committee 0:26:17.480 --> 0:26:21.520 and his power in Congress in order to drag Alvin 0:26:21.600 --> 0:26:27.520 Bragg in, to make him explain why the you know, 0:26:29.320 --> 0:26:34.679 sovereign state of New York has to somehow comply and 0:26:34.800 --> 0:26:38.720 tell the Feds, who have no involvement in this case 0:26:38.760 --> 0:26:43.000 against Donald Trump, why he has charged Donald Trump with 0:26:43.040 --> 0:26:46.879 thirty four felonies. So Alvin Bragg is suing him, and 0:26:46.920 --> 0:26:49.920 I wanted to just get your thoughts and reactions to that. 0:26:50.400 --> 0:26:53.720 I think it's great that Alvin Bragg is funny back 0:26:53.800 --> 0:26:56.160 this way. I think Democrats are to pay attention here. 0:26:56.280 --> 0:26:58.920 This is how you find that you do not let 0:26:59.000 --> 0:27:01.879 them have open feel to just say and do whatever 0:27:01.920 --> 0:27:05.879 they want to smear you, to attack you, to obstruct justice, 0:27:06.640 --> 0:27:09.600